Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...white man," warned Tom Mboya's father, a sober, hard-working Jaluo tribesman who was the African headman at the farm's sisal-processing plant. "He is too powerful, and you cannot change him." But Tom Mboya recalls how riled he was at the sight of the stern estate manager, whom the Africans in fear called Bwana Kiboko-the boss who carries the hippo-skin whip...
...ship has neither a bow nor a stern, it is certainly not a ship. But it is a nifty little method of getting the benefits of U.S.-built ships without the high cost. On order last week from the Hamburg yards of German Shipbuilder Willy Schlieker (TIME, Oct. 26) were the midsections of six vessels for Mobile's McLean Industries, Inc. With a booming business carrying highway trailer vans by sea, McLean decided to add six new vessels, each with a capacity of 476 vans, to his fleet of trailer ships. The problem was that if the vessels were...
...came so unexpectedly that Peking barely had time to arrange the customary "spontaneous demonstrations" in his honor. At the last minute, some 3,000 shivering workers were rounded up and hustled off to the airport to chant "Long live Premier Ne Win of Burma!" But stern-faced General Ne Win was not in Peking for empty courtesies...
Although this may be taken as a joke against both sides, Author Granick (who has taught at the Carnegie Institute of Technology and is now at the University of Glasgow on a Fulbright grant) has catalogued the Soviet Org Man's habits and habitat with stern scholarship; his book has more graphs than laughs. But the irony is still there-the rublerouser in his square suit by Hart Schaffner and especially Marx, concerned about work schedules, procurement, and the problem of keeping down with the Joneses...
...rotisserie in its all-electric kitchen. Price: $28,000. But the biggest attention grabbers at the show were the new jet motorboats. Buehler Turbocraft exhibited a 16-ft. inboard (price: $3,450), powered by a jet engine. It draws in water through intakes amidships, forces it out at the stern, drives the boat up to 38 m.p.h. in as little as three inches of water...